Course Catalog

This presentation is for owners and veterinarians to understand what West Nile Virus is, the history of the disease and its spread across the United States. Discussion of the clinical signs including videos. Treatment protocol will be reviewed and then the importance of prevention and how to prevent will be discussed.

Cats present some unique anesthetic & analgesic challenges and are at higher risk than dogs for anesthesia-related mortality. Small body size, fight/flight tendencies and species-specific responses to drugs can complicate feline anesthesia and analgesia. Addressing specific cat concerns can make anesthesia safer and analgesia more effective. Cat-specific anesthetic and pain management drugs and techniques, along with updates on feline-specific literature and new drugs are covered in this 95 minute On-Demand course.

The evaluation of bulls for their ability to perform as herd sires has unfortunately become commonly labeled as “semen testing” or “semen evaluation”. It is important to stress that semen evaluation is just a small part of the complete evaluation of bulls for breeding soundness.

Veterinarians are increasingly aware of infectious disease risks in their patients, and nosocomial infections are at the top of the list. This On-Demand lecture aims to provide the small animal clinician with some basics to develop your own infection control program. Topics to be covered include the most frequent nosocomial agents, transmission prevention, cleaning and disinfection, protocol development, surveillance, and communication approaches.

By the time a treatment decision is made for a young calf, the disease process likely affected its growth potential. This On-Demand program will highlight the tools and methods for evaluating the critical control points in calf rearing. The research for this project was funded by the USDA NIFA Grant No. 2015-68003-22998.

Drs. Tamara Grubb and Stephen Greene present a series of courses to provide a complete exploration of pain management concepts and techniques. This program is composed of the eight individual modules and awards 10 credits as participants progress through the modules.

In this second module of the Pain Management Certificate Program, Dr. Stephen Greene presents a 50 minute discussion on the physiology of pain, the five sites of analgesic action and distinguishing pain types.

In this seventh module of the Pain Management Certificate Program, Dr. Stephen Greene presents a 50 minute discussion on the effects of acupuncture on the tissues, immune system, and the nervous system.

In this eigth, and final, module of the Pain Management Certificate Program, Drs. Tamara Grubb and Stephen Greene present a 90 minute discussion of tools designed to help develop analgesic protocols for every patient through case examples.

Proper planning optimizes success in oncologic surgery, while inadequate planning can result in recurrence of a tumor more aggressive than the original. We will discuss selection and prioritization of steps involved in working up an oncology patient (including staging and grading), the decision process for when to take incisional vs. excisional biopsies, guidelines for achieving margins on common tumor types like mast cell tumors and soft tissue sarcomas, and steps to minimize tumor seeding.

In this 50 minute course, Dr. Margaret Davis reviews five zoonotic diseases of importance to a veterinary hospital. The topics touched on are the signs and symptoms in animals and humans, mode of transmission and preventative measures.